Behind the Headlines (2021)

7.0/10 90 min Documentary

Overview

Two years after the Panama Papers scandal, two investigative journalists at Germany’s largest newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, are ready with a series of new revelations while researchin the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galicia and a mysterious arms dealer linked to the Iranian nuclear missile programme. When a secret video gets leaked to them in 2019, the journalists have the opportunity to uncover a new scandal, today known as ‘Ibiza-Gate’, involving the Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache.

Cast

Sebastian Kurz

Self (archive footage)

Edward Snowden

Self

Heinz-Christian Strache

Self (archive footage)

Bastian Obermayer

Self

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